The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-03-03
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- Professor Baird says there is nothing
to prevent fish from living indefinitely,
as it has no period of maturity, but grows
with each year. He is responsible like.
wiae for saying that carp have attained
an age of two hundred years. He also
says that within fifty years a pike was
living in Russia whose age, according to
tradition, dated back to the fifteenth CEN
tury. Probably some persons will doubt
what is said by Professor Baird about the
age fish can attain. If they do, they
are simply doubling the best known an
thority 'on fish The Russian Minister
says that in the royal aquarium in St.
Petersburg there are fish to day that have
been known by the records to have been
in it l40 years. Some of them are, he
says, over five times as large as when they
were captured, while others have not
grown an inch in length. An attache of
the Chinese legation corroborates this
statement. He says there are sacred fish
kept in some of the palaces in China that
are even older than those in Russia.
Goldfshes have been known to have be.
louged to one family in this country for
over fifty years.
The House of Representatives of
Tennessee, on Friday, by party vote,
passed the bill to increase the pension Of
soldiers of Tennessee who lost the use of
both eyes or both legs or both arms in
the late war, from $40 to s25 per month
The bill provides that the pension shall
be allowed to Confederate soldiers and to
Federal soldiers not pensioncd by the
United States Government. Objection
was made to the measure by the Republi-
cans on the ground that it recognized
rebellion, and was, therefore, unconstitu.
tional. The bill passed by vote of 81
to "a.
- About the End of January Judge
Bynum, of Charlotte, left for Florida and
only returned on the 23rd of this month.
During his absence his house was entered
and robbed of$2, 500 worth of silver ware.
Imagine his surprise on his return. He
at once set about to discover the thieves,
but before he had proceeded far, his quest
became useless. In the express Office
was box which had been received for
him about the first of February from New
York. He paid the express, and curious
to know what it contained, opened it and
and found all his missing ware. He has
no idea of the cause of the robbery and
return of the goods.
"A well.known cigar manufacturer,
says the New York Star, has recently col.
lated most interesting series of statistics
relative to the use Of tobacco in this
country. The figures in question 60 to
show that in the past year the consump.
tion of tobacco reached unprecedented
proportions. The annual yield oftobacco
in Cuba is, it appears, 250,000 to 350,000
bales, of which last year this country
received 10000 odd bales. The number
of cigars manufactured in Havana was
0,OOO, 900, of which the United States
absorbed a good third. The number of
cigars and cigarettes manufactured in the
United States last year reached the well
developed figure of 1921, ,859,83S. The
estimated wholesale value Of the cigars,
cigarettes, tobaccos and snufs used in
this country during the year reaches the
sum of s1S5,631, ,413 "a and the cost to the
consumer, or retail cost, was 1924, ,949,-
267 30.